Can-opener.



W. G. KIRCHER.

CAN OPENER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 18, 1909.

Patented Nov. 23, 1909.

ggim i M M d w WILHELM GOTTFRIED KIRCHER, OF SOLINGEN, GERMANY.

CAN-OPENER.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 23, 1909.

Application filed Kay 18, 1909 Serial no. 496,795.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILHELM Go'r'rrmnn KIRCHER, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at Solingen, Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in Can-Openers, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to an opener for cans and similar articles, which is of simple construction and permits cans to be conveniently and rapidly opened.

The accompanying drawing, in which similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views, represents a form of embodiment of the new can opener.

Figure 1 demonstrates the contrivance in plan-view. Fig. 2 is a side view of it and Fig. 3. is illustrative of a section taken on line AB in Fig. 1.

The contrivance consists of a frame or plate at having on the one hand guide-rolls I) mounted thereto and which is provided at both extremities with bent edges 0,-d. In these bent edges a threaded spindle e is free to turn, not, however, to slide. This spindle carrying at its one end a handle f has placed on it a screw-threaded body g, being shiftably guided in a slot h of the plate a and having on the other side of the late a bladediskc' mounted to rotate. The earin spindle k is slightly smaller than the hol ow of the disk 2' so that this is consequently movably mounted to some little extent and can turn around, The projectin rim 1) of the roll 6 and the cutting-edge o the blade-disk are arranged at such distance from the bottom-face of the plate a, as corresponds to the thickness of the lid-rim.' The ed e of the blade-disk is chamfered away ownwardly, that is to say, toward the side averted from the plate a. Secured to the plate is further a blade l,-extending beyond the front side of the late.

If it is now desire to open circular cans, b means of the contrivance, the plate a is aced with its bottom-face on the lid. Then the blade-disk is moved toward the rolls b by turning the spindle, with the effect of forcing the rolls against the lateral wall of the can while the bladeitself passes through the side 'of the can. When now the contrivance is turned all around the can by means of the handle, the blade cuts through the shell, disjoining the lid. Owing to the rolls with the projecting slide-faces and to wardly directed beveling at the edge, it is forced withthis edge, during the cutting operation, u wardly and toward the inner face of the li along which it is guided. This presents the advantage that the lid is cut away close to its rim even though this be of different thickness orheight preventing in this manner that a portion is cut away at the same time from the tin-wall.

The blade 1 serves the purpose of cutting away the lid from square, flat or similar cans. This contrivance is placed on the can with its front side or with the rolls 1) slightly projecting over this respectively;

' then it is reciprocated like a lever andmoved along the rim to be cut away, said blade being introduced under pressure into the wall during the one movement.

1. A can opener comprising a plate, a screw spindle journaled therein, a nut en- 'gaging said s indle, a. circular cutter rotaon the nut, .and a pair of' tabl mounte v gui e rollers carried by the plate.

2. A can opener comprising a slotted plate having bent apertured ends, a screw spindle journaled therein, a nut on the spindle that engages the plate-slot, a pin on said nut, a circu ar cutter rotatable on said pin, and a pair of guide rollers carried by the plate.

3. A can opener comprising a plate, a

screw spindle journaled therein, a nut engaging said s indle, a. circular cutter rotatably mounts on the nut, a pair of uide rollers carried by the plate,-and a kni e secured to the plate in proximity to one of said rollers.

Si ed b me at Barmen, Germany, this 4th ay of ay 1909;

WILHELH GOTTFRIED KIRGHER. [L. 8.]

Witnesses:

O'r'ro Komo, C. J. WRIGHT. 

